Sounds like Apple have synchronizing well and truly covered anyway. So this is probably no great loss. I mean Palm still haven't made it easy for me to have _one_ group of contacts shared between my PDA, cellphone and PC. It's left up to the true integrators such as Apple to do this.
Hopefully Palm will give Apple lots of support in the future -- and together can build something much more stable and well integrated than any Palm built effort could have produced.
Hey you resource-poor 3rd world countries, you can have all the power you want, all you need is glass (you've got plently of sand - we can use that - so that's a big CHECK) and a clean source of flowing water... oh DAMN!
Let's be real -- the artical talks about HIV treatments and the like, but I can imagine this chip being a _lot_ more expensive than standard gel caps or pressed pills. I don't see African countries shelling out for this, when even standard medication is a blue sky concept for them (about the only thing they have plenty of).
Medicine is damn expensive, and maybe I'm overly cynical, but I can't see the big pharmaceutical companies getting all altruistic on us any time in the foreseeable future.
It's great to see they're actually looking for companies who are going to do something with the bandwidth.
The farcical 3G auctions of the 'dot com boom' era was the nail in the coffin of many companies who spent billions of dollars on spectrum they had no idea what to do with.
Let's just pray some enterprising companies somewhat aligned to PC users get their mitts on it. If the telcos snap it all up you can bet it'll priced out of the market for mobile PC applications (wireless VPNs, general high-speed wireless access etc).
A CTO impressing his lunchmates with his swanky cell phone displaying video clips of his kids is one thing, but there's a killer app out there right now for a cheap, wireless, ubiquitous service for PC users.
PDA's have really failed to innovate -- their decline lay solely on their own hands.
For years they could have introduced mp3 playing, decent storage capacity, bluetooth, etc. But for whatever reason they held off as long as possible. Perhaps to keep margins high when they were shipping so many units it didn't matter what they did.
These days everyone carries a mobile phone and it just seems more logical to make the phone do the other things you want (address book, calendar, notes, games) rather than have to strap another device to your belt.
Between your iPod and Mobile phone - there's just no room left for the PDA.
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15" 1600x1200 laptop screens are designed for people who want the screen real estate of a 20" CRT monitor (and workstation computing power) in a laptop form factor -- and they're prepared to sacrifice useability for that.
Because you can't really switch resolutions on an LCD screen, manufacturers need to optimise the desktop lcd displays for a practical resolution (dpi density). So it doesn't make sense to cram 1600x1200 into a 15" desktop display (and have people strain to see pixels) when you can deliver it in a 17" form factor which will be much more readable for a negligable size increase (that is, in relation to a desktop device).
NEW YORK (CNN) -- What appeared to be two passenger planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan on Tuesday, leaving both towers in flames.
About 18 minutes after the first plane hit the northern tower, a second plane slammed into the southern tower, erupting into a huge fireball. The harrowing images were caught in live video.
Live pictures showed a gaping hole on the side of the northern building, several stories down from the top. Black smoke was billowing from at least two sides.
The second crash hit the second tower several stories lower than the first in a huge burst of flame.
Sean Murtagh, a CNN vice president, was in an office near the World Trade Center towers at the time of the first crash. He witnessed the crash.
"It was a jet, looked like a two-engine jet," Murtagh said. "It looked like maybe a 737."
Murtagh said he saw the plane "teetering back and forth, wingtip to wingtip" before the plane smashed into the side of the building.
Jeanne Yurman witnessed the explosion that followed the crash.
"At first it was like leaflets," she said, describing the debris that fell to the ground. "There was tons of debris and it continues to fall out."
AMD needs to start gettin the word out that numbers aren't the only thing that matters
Nah. Apple are already spending a few million doing that. And besides, people who buy AMD processors are either doing it because of price, or because they went out and read the benchmarks and reviews and worked out for themselves that there's more to life than clock speed.
the last decent game I played by Midway on PC was Mortal Kombat 3 for DOS. It went downhill from there...
Right - which really goes to show why Midway should move into consoles and not PC games. I'm not a huge arcade buff, but Mortal Kombat is the most recent hugely successful arcade game that comes to mind - it even spawned a Hollywood movie. That fighting genre isn't really a good fit for PCs as there isn't really a ubiquitous, intuitive interface (i.e. 6-button joystick) in consumers' hands on the PC, whereas consoles are well adapted for this style of game (c.f. Tekken 1,2,3... etc).
Windows 95 MK3 won't play fullscreen without screen distortion, MK Trilogy won't work at all on video cards less than three years old without a modified video driver, and MK 4 didn't see my Voodoo 3 3000 card as being Glide-compatible
Again demonstrating they're better off sticking to well-defined hardware platforms than the fickle and unpredictable world of PC multimedia hardware.
The PC is very much a minority platform in computer gaming. The market size of console games is about 5 times as large as that of PC gaming. Which is not to say that PC gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry - but it's still small fry compared to consoles.
In addition, the video arcade business probably has a lot more in common with consoles than PCs (fixed hardware platform, similar interface design issues etc.) so it makes sense that Midway pursue consoles.
And Linux as a future gaming platform? Based on what? The APIs really don't exist to support this claim yet (maybe they will in the future) - other than OpenGL (which only takes care of graphics) and perhaps SDL (maybe some competition for DirectX 3) there is very little to entice game developers to the Linux platform.
One of the persistent myths about the Net has been that because it costs so little to publish online, and the technology makes it so simple, diversity can flourish in cyberspace no matter how big "Big" media gets. As we're learning, that isn't so.
How is this a myth? This statement is absolutely true. It's never been cheaper to set up a website online. Many, many hosting companies offer web-serving, email, dns delegation, gigabytes in monthly traffic, and access to back-end technologies such PHP and ASP for under $20 a month. This kind of affordability just doesn't exist in any other form of media.
Suck was set up in the spare time of a couple of Hotwired employees - it quickly become an icon of intelligent/satirical commentary on the web. It was a success. Once they tried to to operate the site as a business it was then matter of waiting for the money to run out - but I for one certainly wouldn't be pointing fingers at big media in looking for the reason for their downfall.
Somewhere along the line large numbers of people stopped seeing the web as a cheap and effective place to publish original commentary or to host free-flowing discussion groups. Instead, they began eyeballing the bank balances of the ever-increasing numbers of geek-millionaires and looking to get a little of that action for themselves.
Katz, diversity can and does flourish in 'cyberspace', it just doesn't necessarily turn a profit doing so. That's all you seem to be saying.
WAP can be transported over SMS - but i've never seen or heard of anyone actually crazy enough to try this.
WAP is more commonly the application layer over a PPP connection. For example, enter any ISP's dial-in number into your phone's WAP settings (+ username and password) along with the IP address of a publicly accessible WAP gateway and you're away laughing.
What are you people crazy? Ads are here to stay. Fact: Television exists because of advertising. There is no way Tivo will be allowed to attain a significant market share without some safe-guards in place to make sure viewers are force-fed their daily dose of advertisements.
VCRs are tolerated by the Television industry because their impact on ad-aversion is thought to be minimal. Face it, most people don't know how to use the timer-record features of their VCRs - the vast majority of television people watch is live-broadcast. Thus, ad-watching remains a huge part of television viewing.
Tivo and similar PVRs can change this - through integrated electronic programme guides, they make it easy for people to record shows regardless of their air-time. Large built-in storage make them even more attractive. Your average Joe Remote can now actually negotiate the smorgasboard of TV in their own time, and therefore easily skip ads. Once these devices become as ubiquitous as the VCR free-to-air networks are in real trouble.
I ain't no J.D Salinger (as that double negative will attest to) but the quality of this review is shocking. I mean come on...
"Coming with a hefty pricetag of $99, is this tiny sucker worth it? Hell, it even a whole keyboard. It's half of one!"
- You may think I being picky here, but this contradiction comes in right at the start of the review. Did the author re-read his review even once?
It's [dimensions are] about the size of a scientific calculator, or 1/4 the size of a laptop. It's also a keyboard.
- Funny that.
Like any other keyboard the Half Keyboard plugs in via a PS/2 port. It's compatible with Palms, Handspring Visors, PCs, as well as Macs.
- The depth of the research carried out here speaks volumes about the reviewer.
While there were no drivers I had to install via a cd, I thought the overall package that came with the Half Keyboard was very well done.
- You don't need Old Man Murray to tell you that when a review starts describing product packaging it's in big big trouble.
Weighing about 1/5 the weight of a calculator, I've got to say kudos to Matias for making the Half Keyboard compactable.
- Dubya would be so proud. It's compactable!
The tutorial then goes on to introduce how to use the other features such as characters and numbers.
- The feature bloat on this keyboard puts even Mozilla to shame! Yes, that's right characters AND numbers. Stop the madness, please.
Netscape was struggling to make money because every time they came out with a product MS came out with the same prduct and gave it away for free.
Netscape's browser was for all practical purposes free from the beginning. The only people paying for it were large companies. From what I've heard, making money off browser sales wasn't their core business in any case.
Apache (still the most popular web server) exisited long before Netscape's (let alone Microsoft's) webserver. So to say that IIS (still a minority product) being free killed Netscape doesn't make sense either.
With NS running out of money they could no longer afford to keep NS competitive and started trying to find other markets.
Are you saying Netscape couldn't afford to put resources into further developing their web browser? I haven't heard that before.
Unfortunately for NS they did not have a monopoly where they could cram their browser down peoples throats wheather they liked it or not.
No - Netscape had a browser monopoly where they could cram their proprietary HTML extensions down peoples throats whether they liked it or not.
Netscape are responsible for one of the most hated and half-baked HTML 'features' of all times - frames. Frames were never part of an HTML spec, Netscape made them up. There are many elements of HTML like this that Netscape just pulled out of their ass and were able force into the W3C's HTML specification because they dominated the browser market so completely.
I remember all the browser war graphs back in '96 when people first began to question Netscape's browser monopoly. Most people thought their position was unassailable - we had grown used to poor performance and constant browser crashes.
IE came preinstalled while NS was a huge download. Without this bundling IE could never have had market penetration to dominate like they do today.
I can't say I agree with you here. Bundling definitely helps with certain market segments, but remember, Netscape got to its position solely on downloads. Microsoft had been bundling IE since at least version 2 - and it wasn't helping their position. Whether you care to admit it or not, it was the quality of later browsers - particularly IE5 that got them where they are today.
The major primary complaint I have had with MS is the pervasion of inferior technology by means of superior marketing. Check Out my blurb on Boiling Frogs.
Please, get over yourself. Complaining that a company is too good at marketing their product is ri-god-damn-diculous.
"We gotta integrate IE into Windows because we'll never win otherwise"
In other words, they couldn't win on the merits of the program. So they HAD to win by other means. This was well in advance of IE 5. Are you still Enthusiastically using the ActiveX desktop
Umm, if you ask me, IE won the browser wars despite that Active desktop shit. I don't know anyone that uses it. It's completely irrelevant in any sort of "browser wars" discussion. While Microsoft may have thought they'd 'win' by making the desktop more like a web browser, they actually won be producing a stable, fast product more standards compliant than anything else at the time.
chop()
chop(@list) in list context returned the characters chopped in reverse order.
This has been reversed to be in the right order.
You just know this is one of those bugs that would've had people scratching their heads for hours trying to work out why their arrays were sudddenly in reverse order; trying to debug their code with copious foreach loops and print statements.
it's pretty funny watching any thread not related to linux, microsoft or linux-inspired hardware hacks decay into a litany of slashdot references, linux in-jokes and theonion.com-esque pieces.
the additional insight supplied by the slashdot community on this story is non-existent, except as reinforcement of the last word in the story post; a collective exclamation of "kickass".
Well this is true only assuming there are actually other lifeforms out there in the universe. If not, life as we know it pretty much covers the entire gambit.
This is probably better off on some X mailing list - but maybe someone can provide some enlightenment for me. From my POV Xfree86's biggest weakness is the lack of a decent framework/API/whatever for 2D graphics with respect to say full-screen (or even windowed) canvas sizes and decent update speeds. Currently, X will only update a window at around 60fps (or is it 30) and from what I've seen there no support for any full-screen modes.
Basically I want an OpenGL for 2D graphics under X. I quite like SVGAlib, but the graphics card support is fairly limited and it's obviously no where near as ubiquitous as Xfree86.
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Sounds like Apple have synchronizing well and truly covered anyway. So this is probably no great loss. I mean Palm still haven't made it easy for me to have _one_ group of contacts shared between my PDA, cellphone and PC. It's left up to the true integrators such as Apple to do this.
Hopefully Palm will give Apple lots of support in the future -- and together can build something much more stable and well integrated than any Palm built effort could have produced.
A job well done -- always nice to see someone revist and improve on past research rather than blindly following the current trends.
The only problem with my knowledge of Newton these days is that 70% of it involves Waterhouse and other Neal Stephenson creations.
I mean I could regale you with tales of Newton deforming his eye with a knitting needle but it could be complete fiction...
Great!
Hey you resource-poor 3rd world countries, you can have all the power you want, all you need is glass (you've got plently of sand - we can use that - so that's a big CHECK) and a clean source of flowing water... oh DAMN!
I knew this was to good to be true.
Let's be real -- the artical talks about HIV treatments and the like, but I can imagine this chip being a _lot_ more expensive than standard gel caps or pressed pills. I don't see African countries shelling out for this, when even standard medication is a blue sky concept for them (about the only thing they have plenty of).
Medicine is damn expensive, and maybe I'm overly cynical, but I can't see the big pharmaceutical companies getting all altruistic on us any time in the foreseeable future.
It's great to see they're actually looking for companies who are going to do something with the bandwidth.
The farcical 3G auctions of the 'dot com boom' era was the nail in the coffin of many companies who spent billions of dollars on spectrum they had no idea what to do with.
Let's just pray some enterprising companies somewhat aligned to PC users get their mitts on it. If the telcos snap it all up you can bet it'll priced out of the market for mobile PC applications (wireless VPNs, general high-speed wireless access etc).
A CTO impressing his lunchmates with his swanky cell phone displaying video clips of his kids is one thing, but there's a killer app out there right now for a cheap, wireless, ubiquitous service for PC users.
Bill, Steve, Paul... somebody?
PDA's have really failed to innovate -- their decline lay solely on their own hands.
For years they could have introduced mp3 playing, decent storage capacity, bluetooth, etc. But for whatever reason they held off as long as possible. Perhaps to keep margins high when they were shipping so many units it didn't matter what they did.
These days everyone carries a mobile phone and it just seems more logical to make the phone do the other things you want (address book, calendar, notes, games) rather than have to strap another device to your belt.
Between your iPod and Mobile phone - there's just no room left for the PDA.
15" 1600x1200 laptop screens are designed for people who want the screen real estate of a 20" CRT monitor (and workstation computing power) in a laptop form factor -- and they're prepared to sacrifice useability for that.
Because you can't really switch resolutions on an LCD screen, manufacturers need to optimise the desktop lcd displays for a practical resolution (dpi density). So it doesn't make sense to cram 1600x1200 into a 15" desktop display (and have people strain to see pixels) when you can deliver it in a 17" form factor which will be much more readable for a negligable size increase (that is, in relation to a desktop device).
apologies to cnn for ripping this off their site:
NEW YORK (CNN) -- What appeared to be two passenger planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan on Tuesday, leaving both towers in flames.
About 18 minutes after the first plane hit the northern tower, a second plane slammed into the southern tower, erupting into a huge fireball. The harrowing images were caught in live video.
Live pictures showed a gaping hole on the side of the northern building, several stories down from the top. Black smoke was billowing from at least two sides.
The second crash hit the second tower several stories lower than the first in a huge burst of flame.
Sean Murtagh, a CNN vice president, was in an office near the World Trade Center towers at the time of the first crash. He witnessed the crash.
"It was a jet, looked like a two-engine jet," Murtagh said. "It looked like maybe a 737."
Murtagh said he saw the plane "teetering back and forth, wingtip to wingtip" before the plane smashed into the side of the building.
Jeanne Yurman witnessed the explosion that followed the crash.
"At first it was like leaflets," she said, describing the debris that fell to the ground. "There was tons of debris and it continues to fall out."
Yurman said she did not see the plane.
Nah. Apple are already spending a few million doing that. And besides, people who buy AMD processors are either doing it because of price, or because they went out and read the benchmarks and reviews and worked out for themselves that there's more to life than clock speed.
the last decent game I played by Midway on PC was Mortal Kombat 3 for DOS. It went downhill from there...
Right - which really goes to show why Midway should move into consoles and not PC games. I'm not a huge arcade buff, but Mortal Kombat is the most recent hugely successful arcade game that comes to mind - it even spawned a Hollywood movie. That fighting genre isn't really a good fit for PCs as there isn't really a ubiquitous, intuitive interface (i.e. 6-button joystick) in consumers' hands on the PC, whereas consoles are well adapted for this style of game (c.f. Tekken 1,2,3... etc).
Windows 95 MK3 won't play fullscreen without screen distortion, MK Trilogy won't work at all on video cards less than three years old without a modified video driver, and MK 4 didn't see my Voodoo 3 3000 card as being Glide-compatible
Again demonstrating they're better off sticking to well-defined hardware platforms than the fickle and unpredictable world of PC multimedia hardware.
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The PC is very much a minority platform in computer gaming. The market size of console games is about 5 times as large as that of PC gaming. Which is not to say that PC gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry - but it's still small fry compared to consoles.
In addition, the video arcade business probably has a lot more in common with consoles than PCs (fixed hardware platform, similar interface design issues etc.) so it makes sense that Midway pursue consoles.
And Linux as a future gaming platform? Based on what? The APIs really don't exist to support this claim yet (maybe they will in the future) - other than OpenGL (which only takes care of graphics) and perhaps SDL (maybe some competition for DirectX 3) there is very little to entice game developers to the Linux platform.
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Talk about your impressive hardware hacks. First the TiVo digital output hack and now this. Amazing!
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One of the persistent myths about the Net has been that because it costs so little to publish online, and the technology makes it so simple, diversity can flourish in cyberspace no matter how big "Big" media gets. As we're learning, that isn't so.
How is this a myth? This statement is absolutely true. It's never been cheaper to set up a website online. Many, many hosting companies offer web-serving, email, dns delegation, gigabytes in monthly traffic, and access to back-end technologies such PHP and ASP for under $20 a month. This kind of affordability just doesn't exist in any other form of media.
Suck was set up in the spare time of a couple of Hotwired employees - it quickly become an icon of intelligent/satirical commentary on the web. It was a success. Once they tried to to operate the site as a business it was then matter of waiting for the money to run out - but I for one certainly wouldn't be pointing fingers at big media in looking for the reason for their downfall.
Somewhere along the line large numbers of people stopped seeing the web as a cheap and effective place to publish original commentary or to host free-flowing discussion groups. Instead, they began eyeballing the bank balances of the ever-increasing numbers of geek-millionaires and looking to get a little of that action for themselves.
Katz, diversity can and does flourish in 'cyberspace', it just doesn't necessarily turn a profit doing so. That's all you seem to be saying.
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WAP can be transported over SMS - but i've never seen or heard of anyone actually crazy enough to try this.
WAP is more commonly the application layer over a PPP connection. For example, enter any ISP's dial-in number into your phone's WAP settings (+ username and password) along with the IP address of a publicly accessible WAP gateway and you're away laughing.
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What are you people crazy? Ads are here to stay. Fact: Television exists because of advertising. There is no way Tivo will be allowed to attain a significant market share without some safe-guards in place to make sure viewers are force-fed their daily dose of advertisements.
VCRs are tolerated by the Television industry because their impact on ad-aversion is thought to be minimal. Face it, most people don't know how to use the timer-record features of their VCRs - the vast majority of television people watch is live-broadcast. Thus, ad-watching remains a huge part of television viewing.
Tivo and similar PVRs can change this - through integrated electronic programme guides, they make it easy for people to record shows regardless of their air-time. Large built-in storage make them even more attractive. Your average Joe Remote can now actually negotiate the smorgasboard of TV in their own time, and therefore easily skip ads. Once these devices become as ubiquitous as the VCR free-to-air networks are in real trouble.
Unless... well, you work it out.
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This is a really strange thing to see - Plastic is powered by Slash, isn't it?
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"Coming with a hefty pricetag of $99, is this tiny sucker worth it? Hell, it even a whole keyboard. It's half of one!"
- You may think I being picky here, but this contradiction comes in right at the start of the review. Did the author re-read his review even once?
It's [dimensions are] about the size of a scientific calculator, or 1/4 the size of a laptop. It's also a keyboard.
- Funny that.
Like any other keyboard the Half Keyboard plugs in via a PS/2 port. It's compatible with Palms, Handspring Visors, PCs, as well as Macs.
- The depth of the research carried out here speaks volumes about the reviewer.
While there were no drivers I had to install via a cd, I thought the overall package that came with the Half Keyboard was very well done.
- You don't need Old Man Murray to tell you that when a review starts describing product packaging it's in big big trouble.
Weighing about 1/5 the weight of a calculator, I've got to say kudos to Matias for making the Half Keyboard compactable.
- Dubya would be so proud. It's compactable!
The tutorial then goes on to introduce how to use the other features such as characters and numbers.
- The feature bloat on this keyboard puts even Mozilla to shame! Yes, that's right characters AND numbers. Stop the madness, please.
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Netscape was struggling to make money because every time they came out with a product MS came out with the same prduct and gave it away for free.
Netscape's browser was for all practical purposes free from the beginning. The only people paying for it were large companies. From what I've heard, making money off browser sales wasn't their core business in any case.
Apache (still the most popular web server) exisited long before Netscape's (let alone Microsoft's) webserver. So to say that IIS (still a minority product) being free killed Netscape doesn't make sense either.
With NS running out of money they could no longer afford to keep NS competitive and started trying to find other markets.
Are you saying Netscape couldn't afford to put resources into further developing their web browser? I haven't heard that before.
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No - Netscape had a browser monopoly where they could cram their proprietary HTML extensions down peoples throats whether they liked it or not.
Netscape are responsible for one of the most hated and half-baked HTML 'features' of all times - frames. Frames were never part of an HTML spec, Netscape made them up. There are many elements of HTML like this that Netscape just pulled out of their ass and were able force into the W3C's HTML specification because they dominated the browser market so completely.
I remember all the browser war graphs back in '96 when people first began to question Netscape's browser monopoly. Most people thought their position was unassailable - we had grown used to poor performance and constant browser crashes.
IE came preinstalled while NS was a huge download. Without this bundling IE could never have had market penetration to dominate like they do today.
I can't say I agree with you here. Bundling definitely helps with certain market segments, but remember, Netscape got to its position solely on downloads. Microsoft had been bundling IE since at least version 2 - and it wasn't helping their position. Whether you care to admit it or not, it was the quality of later browsers - particularly IE5 that got them where they are today.
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The major primary complaint I have had with MS is the pervasion of inferior technology by means of superior marketing. Check Out my blurb on Boiling Frogs.
Please, get over yourself. Complaining that a company is too good at marketing their product is ri-god-damn-diculous.
"We gotta integrate IE into Windows because we'll never win otherwise"
In other words, they couldn't win on the merits of the program. So they HAD to win by other means. This was well in advance of IE 5. Are you still Enthusiastically using the ActiveX desktop
Umm, if you ask me, IE won the browser wars despite that Active desktop shit. I don't know anyone that uses it. It's completely irrelevant in any sort of "browser wars" discussion. While Microsoft may have thought they'd 'win' by making the desktop more like a web browser, they actually won be producing a stable, fast product more standards compliant than anything else at the time.
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chop(@list) in list context returned the characters chopped in reverse order.
This has been reversed to be in the right order.
You just know this is one of those bugs that would've had people scratching their heads for hours trying to work out why their arrays were sudddenly in reverse order; trying to debug their code with copious foreach loops and print statements.
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it's pretty funny watching any thread not related to linux, microsoft or linux-inspired hardware hacks decay into a litany of slashdot references, linux in-jokes and theonion.com-esque pieces.
the additional insight supplied by the slashdot community on this story is non-existent, except as reinforcement of the last word in the story post; a collective exclamation of "kickass".
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life as we know it is very slim indeed
Well this is true only assuming there are actually other lifeforms out there in the universe. If not, life as we know it pretty much covers the entire gambit.
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No - they'll just take less time to develop and release new games.
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This is probably better off on some X mailing list - but maybe someone can provide some enlightenment for me. From my POV Xfree86's biggest weakness is the lack of a decent framework/API/whatever for 2D graphics with respect to say full-screen (or even windowed) canvas sizes and decent update speeds. Currently, X will only update a window at around 60fps (or is it 30) and from what I've seen there no support for any full-screen modes.
Basically I want an OpenGL for 2D graphics under X. I quite like SVGAlib, but the graphics card support is fairly limited and it's obviously no where near as ubiquitous as Xfree86.
Anyone care to shed some light on this issue?
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